Question

What is the purpose of a pilot​ sample?

Answer 1

Answer:

b. To provide an idea of what the population standard deviation might be

Step-by-step explanation:

Pilot sample can be regarded as the

small scale preliminary experiment whereby a smaller size of samples which is smaller compare to expected size is taken population of interest which gives the estimate for the population standard deviation.

The population standard mean is a parameter and it's been calculated from every entity of the population and

can be calculated using below formula

σ =√Σ (xi -μ)^2 /N

Where N= size of the population

σ= population standard mean

μ= population mean

Xi=each sample from the population